Southward o f thefe, as large as the others. Each feemed to
be about fix or feven miles long, and of a fimilar height and
appearance. The Northernmoft of them is called Haanno,
the next Foa, the third Lefooga, and the Southernmoft Hoo-
laiva; but all four are included, by the natives, under the
general name Hapaee.
The wind fcanting upon us, we could not fetch the land;
fo that we were forced to ply to windward. In doing this,
we once palled over fome coral rocks, on which we had
only fix fathoms water; but the moment we were over
them, found no ground with eighty fathoms of line. At this
time, the illes of Hapaee.bore, from North, 50° Eaft, to South,
9° Weft. We got up with the Northernmoft of thefe illes by
funfet; and there found ourfelves in the very fame diftrefs,
for want of anchorage, that we had experienced the two preceding
evenings; fo that we had another night to fpend
under fail, with land and breakers in every direction. Toward
the evening, Feenou, who had been on board all day,
■went forward to Hapaee, and took Omai in the carioe with
him. He did not forget our difagreeable fituation; and
kept up a good fire, all night, by way of a land-mark.
Saturday 17. As foon as the day-light returned, being then clofe in
with Foa, we faw it was joined to Haanno, by a reef
running even with the furface of the fea, from the one
illand to the other. I now difpatched a boat to look for anchorage.
A proper place was foon found, and we came to,
abreaft of a reef, being that which joins Lefooga to Foa (in
the fame manner that Foa is joined to Haanno), having
twenty-four fathoms depth of water 7 the bottom coral fand.
In this ftation, the northern point of Hapaee, or the North
£nd of Haanno, bore North, 16° Eaft. The Southern point
of
of Hapaee, or the South end o f Hoolaiva, South, 29° Weft; 1m-
and the North end of Lefooga, South, 65° Eaft. Two ledges'
o f rocks lay without us ; the one bearing South, 50° Weft ;
and the other Weft by North 4. North, diftant two or three
miles. We lay before a creek in the reef, which made it
convenient landing at all times; and we were not above
three quarters o f a mile from the ihore.
V o l . I . C H A P .